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Urbane Guerrilla · 08-08-2005, 01:47 AM

True, Elspode: very few are neutral about the sound of the great Highland pipes. We pipers make a secondary hobby of collecting bagpipe jokes because we hear absolutely every one of them.

This one's probably my favorite: that the Irish conned the Scots (back in the days when the Scots themselves were pretty much Irish) into believing the pipes were a way to make music rather than an instrument of war -- and have been waiting twelve hundred years for the Scots to get the joke!

Funnily enough, it's the Englishmen who believe the instrument of war part.

Then there's the one about why the Highland Regiments are so unstoppable on the charge...

08-08-2005, 01:47 AM	#10
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	True, Elspode: very few are neutral about the sound of the great Highland pipes. We pipers make a secondary hobby of collecting bagpipe jokes because we hear absolutely every one of them. This one's probably my favorite: that the Irish conned the Scots (back in the days when the Scots themselves were pretty much Irish) into believing the pipes were a way to make music rather than an instrument of war -- and have been waiting twelve hundred years for the Scots to get the joke! Funnily enough, it's the Englishmen who believe the instrument of war part. Then there's the one about why the Highland Regiments are so unstoppable on the charge... __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course. Last edited by Urbane Guerrilla; 08-08-2005 at 01:49 AM.